Selection by @POTUS to select Bill Bar as the next attorney general is "a continuation of this law and order presidency," says acting Attorney General @MattWhitaker46.

Barr demonstrated "an unwavering adherence to the rule of law" in his previous tenure as attorney general, says @POTUS in Kansas City speech to law enforcement, saying his intended nominee deserves bipartisan support.

In speech to law enforcement, commenting on congressional races, @POTUS sometimes you choose someone for a position that you think is going to be really good and "they choke like dogs."

The @POTUS-Xi dinner here was a “highly successful meeting," says @PressSec in statement and the Chinese president, "in a wonderful humanitarian gesture, has agreed to designate Fentanyl as a Controlled Substance."

And @POTUS agreed that on Jan. 1, he'll "leave tariffs on $200 billion worth of product at the 10% rate, and not raise it to 25% at this time," adds @PressSec.

"China will agree to purchase a not yet agreed upon, but very substantial, amount of agricultural, energy, industrial, and other product from the United States to reduce the trade imbalance between our two countries," according to @PressSec.

"I think Mr. Khashoggi is dead," @SenJohnKennedy tells reporters. "I don’t think the aliens abducted him. I don’t think he fell through a hole in the space-time continuum. I think he’s dead. And I think the Saudis killed him"

"Whether King Salman or Prince Mohammed knew about it or not is really irrelevant," adds @SenJohnKennedy. "They’re captains of the ship. What do we do about it? We need to condemn the conduct in the strongest possible terms and the president and Congress need to do it together."

"With the exception of Israel, I trust every country in the Middle East as much as I trust gas station sushi," continues @SenJohnKennedy. "We can’t deal with Iran. We tried. They’re a cancer in the Middle East. That means we have to maintain a relationship with Saudi Arabia."

“The New York Times’s story is inaccurate and factually incorrect,” Rosenstein said in a statement. “Based on my personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment.”

My colleague @masoodfarivar relays from source who was in room (with DAG when he made the comment): “I remember this meeting and remember the wire comment. The statement was sarcastic and was never discussed with any intention of recording a conversation with the president.”

"As we continue to monitor Hurricane Florence, the President will receive an emergency preparedness update this morning," says @LWalters45 in statement.

Update: “This morning the President spoke with Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Mayor Bill Saffo of Wilmington, NC. The President offered his support and reiterated the federal government’s willingness to help with whatever is needed," says @PressSec in statement.

Center of #Hurricane Florence will move over the SW
Atlantic Ocean between Bermuda and the Bahamas today and approach
the coast of the Carolinas on Thursday and Friday and move slowly near the
coastline through Saturday, according to @NHC_Atlantic.